Bank officers union AIBOC has objected to the RBI’s determination to open ASBA-designated branches on Sunday to facilitate subscription to the general public provide of LIC, saying it’s going to serve no goal as many of the functions are filed digitally.
Most of the branches are ASBA (Application Supported by Blocked Amount) designated with fast digitisation.
“Considering extensive usage of online subscription of IPO among the investors, we are of the considered view that most of the branches will not get even a single application on Sunday in the physical format. In such circumstances, the decision to keep open all the bank branches is per se farcical and banks cannot afford to bear such humongous expenditure,” AIBOC mentioned in an announcement.
This has naturally created angst and displeasure among the many officers fraternity of the banks, who’re really the drivers of the business, the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC) mentioned.
While the DIPAM has been over-enthusiastic to ask branches to work on vacation, it mentioned, the RBI has not assessed the precise requirement to maintain all of the branches open.
The determination won’t yield any end result relatively impose large monetary burden which is estimated to be greater than Rs 100 crore on account of worker compensation and different operational prices to maintain the branches open on a vacation, it mentioned.
Considering all these features, the RBI ought to evaluation its determination and recall its order of opening branches on Sunday, the union mentioned.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday had directed banks that every one ASBA-designated branches will stay open for public on Sunday to facilitate processing of functions for LIC’s preliminary public providing (IPO).
State-owned LIC’s IPO, the nation’s greatest ever provide, closes on May 9. There might be bidding on May 7 (Saturday) and May 8 (Sunday) as effectively.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”